How to model a many to many from a DDD perspective in UML?

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Published on 2011-12-18T17:55:14Z Indexed on 2012/04/06 5:40 UTC
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I have a two entity objects Site and Customer where there is a many to many relationship. I have read you try not to model this in DDD as it is in the data model and go for a unidirectional flow.

If I wanted to show this in UML, would I show it as it is in the data model:

Site * ----->*Customer but the direction arrow gives the flow?

or as following

Site ----->*Customer But then this would imply that Customer can only go in one site.

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